Mark Major (lighting designer)

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Mark Major is a British lighting designer and architect. He is the co-founder of Speirs Major, a lighting design studio. [1] [2]

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Career

Major is an architect by training. [1] Having previously worked with lighting designer Jonathan Speirs at Lighting Design Partnership in Edinburgh, the pair established their own lighting design studio Speirs and Major Associates in 1993. [3] In 2010, the studio was rebranded Speirs + Major, [4] and in 2020 as Speirs Major. [5]

Major was Lighting Design Advisor to the Olympic Delivery Authority for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012. [6] He became Master for the Faculty for the Royal Designers for Industry in November 2019. [7]

Major's notable lighting projects include the Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London, UK (1999), [8] Terminal 5, Heathrow, London, UK (2008), [9] Beijing Capital International Airport, Beijing, China (2008), [1] and the interior of St Paul's Cathedral, London, UK (2006). [8] [10] He is active in the field of urban design and light masterplanning [11] and produced the Lighting Vision for the City of London, UK in 2018. [12]

Awards and honours

In 2012, Major was named a Royal Designer for Industry for his "innovative use of light to create public space". [13] He received the 'Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Design' award at the FX Awards in 2015. [14]

Major is a Fellow of the International Association of Lighting Designers. [15]

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  5. ↑ Waring, Matt. "Speirs + Major announce new name, brand identity and website | arc" . Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "Lighting design | Beyond 2012" . Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  7. ↑ RSA. "'Don't Forget the Magic' - RSA". www.thersa.org. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  8. 1 2 Kennett, Stephen (January 2006). "Setting the World Alight". Building magazine.
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  12. ↑ "City of London Lighting Strategy, 2018" (PDF).
  13. ↑ "Current Royal Designers - RSA". www.thersa.org. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  14. ↑ "FX Awards 2015: The winners - DesignCurial". www.designcurial.com. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  15. ↑ "IALD List of Fellows". International Association of Lighting Designers.
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